On this Thanksgiving Day, sports must extol the somber scene at the England-France soccer friendly at Wembley Stadium in London four nights after the Paris terrorist attacks when 71,223 spectators from the rival nations and 44 players, arm-in-arm, sang “La Marseillaise,” the French anthem. Merci, soccer.
Not to forget, there are so many others in sports’ little corner of the world who deserve a thank you. Especially a horse.
Give an extra carrot or two to American Pharoah, who wore racing’s first Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978, and a clenched fist-pump or two for the trainer Bob Baffert, the owner Ahmed Zayat and the jockey Victor Espinoza.